A New Mexico woman wants her local county government to pay the $1,122 hospital bill she received after undergoing a forcible body cavity search, which she did on the orders of her local Metro Narcotics Agency. Why might her position be justified?

The agency ordered the search solely on the basis of "credible information from a reliable source" that the woman was concealing up to an ounce of heroin. Everyone knows that when it comes to drug cases, informants alwaystell the truth.

The search produced no heroin.

Based on info provided by our reliable source, no other evidence linked the woman to one ounce of heroin.